PSA: Don’t Use AI to Create Passwords
AI Passwords Depending on what you do, AI can do a lot for your individual productivity. Given how effective some AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are at certain business tasks, like drafting emails, improving grammar, synthesizing information, or even writing or correcting code. But recent research shows us one thing you shouldn’t use AI for: creating passwords. A clearer understanding of how these systems work can show you why. Here’s what you need to know. Why People Use AI for Password Creation We’ve warned for more than a decade that using simple passwords is dangerous, and reusing them is even worse. Passwords that use your birthday, common patterns like 2468, or even the word “password” itself (yes, this really still happens) are easy to guess. When you reuse those easy passwords across multiple accounts, all it takes is one right guess and the bad guys could gain access to all sorts of information. People hear that passwords need to be long, complex, and unique, but we humans ...